Ten minutes is a long time to ask for. A YouTube script it’s a thirty second sprint to two minutes and wherever audience typical drop-off occurs. Structure beats sentences. Ten minutes is a long time to ask for. A YouTube script has to continually earn that time at the thirty second mark, at two minutes, and again wherever your audience historically leaves. Structure is more important than sentences.
When writing scripts, the writer must first build the running order of the script, mark where the narration must cease and be replaced by a visual, and only then write the running order of the script. By the time a script draft is written, the overall shape of the video has been determined.
Retention losses don’t happen linearly. Rather, up to thirty seconds in, a viewer decides to either stay or go. Afterward, viewer interest decays according to how fast the video progresses. A smart writer knows that the moment worth saving should come before the channel animation, asks a question at every chapter break that is directly related to what the viewers just engaged with, and refuses to summarize or Benedictine a finally viewed segment.
Automatically generated long-form scripts restate the thesis at the top of every section, add a bridging sentence explaining that there is more to the topic, and conclude with a paragraph offering predictions. Retention graphs show exactly where the audience starts losing interest with each of these habits.
Most of the time, research comes from sources the video will credit on screen. The writer ranks chapters by when they would occur in the overall video and determines a rough spot to put a mid-roll without splitting a thought. Afterwards, a rough draft is made. The draft is then reviewed and unneeded sentences that simply restate the previous sentence are removed.
This pass focuses on the budget and not the copy. We look to see if the visuals the script requests can be captured on camera or purchased, that the read time fits your goal, and that anything presented as fact has a source that you would be comfortable putting on screen.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical YouTube script | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short video (5 min) | 700 | $70 | $0.70 | $70.70 |
| Standard video (10 min) | 1,400 | $140 | $1.40 | $141.40 |
| Deep dive (20 min) | 2,800 | $280 | $2.80 | $282.80 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Anything from 100 words up. Because you pay by the word you are never buying padding to fill a package tier.
Yes — that is exactly what the included revision rounds are for. Read it aloud, mark the lines that fight your mouth, and send it back. Rewriting for delivery is normal on any script and the writer expects it.
That is the better order. Once the packaging is complete, the script just has to keep its promise in the first minute. The writer is sent the title, the thumbnail and any audience data, and works backwards from that information.
Yes. Send the sponsor talking points along with any claims that must be included, and the writer will place the read where it costs you least typically after the first payoff rather than before it. Copy from the sponsor counts toward the word total the same as anything else.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
Our audience left before 40 seconds because it was too slow. The section after the two minute mark is very good. A colder open was requested and we delivered and the drop off on the retention graph finally flattened where it use to be a steady decline.
Chapter seven got me stuck for almost a year, and the suggested structure finally helped. Great outline, but the email with it was a two-sentence filler. I had to ask for a paragraph explaining the order of the chapters.
Each of the nine sessions across the five weeks brought the same line of questioning about the shop in 1987. I had to keep telling her there was nothing to say. Chapter four is the part of my memoir my daughter cried over.
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
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